This paper aims to analyze how the Bible stories are transformed for children to understand the stories in the Children ́s Bibles. Moreover, I have analyzed how the narrator is telling the story in the Children ́s Bibles with focus on focalization. The Bible stories that will be analyzed is “The Creation”, “Cain and Abel” and “Birth of Jesus”. This paper will also address which child vision who is represented in Barnens bästa bibel, Barnens bibel and Bibel för barn. The theory of child vision is taken from Bonnie J Miller-McLemores book Let the Children Come: Reimagining Childhood from a Christian Perspective. Previous research on this aim shows that there has not been a lot of research written down. Therefore, this paper can contribute material for further studies. Martin Luther was the first person to create a bible for children and for people who couldn ́t read. In Sweden, there are only a few people who have done research in this field, and the bishop Sören Dalevi is one of them. In one of his articles, he concludes that certain characters in the children ́s Bibles are reflected differently from what they do in the Bible. To obtain answers to the aim of this paper, a structuralist narrative text analytical method and a comparative method have been used. It shows that Bible texts have received small changes. The authors of the Children ́s Bibles have adapted the Biblical text, so that it is easier for children to understand. In all stories in the Children ́s Bibles, one or more focalizations are included. Also, the three different child vision, premodern, modern, and postmodern, are also represented in any of Barnens bästa bibel, Bibel för barn and Barnens bibel.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kau-89905 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Hedenstedt, Alice |
| Publisher | Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för samhälls- och kulturvetenskap (from 2013) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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